“This book is an outstanding contribution to the silent revolution that is placing education at the heart of the cultural history of the ‘long eighteenth century&rsquo. The editors set out to redefine education as a cultural, rather than a political, social or purely instructive practice. The editors & contributors demonstrate convincingly the innovative work that is possible outside conventional disciplinary boundaries in the conceptual space constituted through education. This is a book that sets agendas for future research & debate as it sheds light on ‘new ways of seeing’ in the history of education. It is a book with the potential to reconfigure both history & education.”—Joyce Goodman, University of Winchester, UK

“An arresting collection which succeeds in its goal of posing a challenge to more traditional approaches to the history of education &, instead, understanding it as an aspect of the process by which culture was transmitted to young people.… A first-rate volume that is of considerable value, both for content & for methodology.”—Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, Enlightenment & Dissent 25 (2009)